A masterpiece of expressionism.
The most breathtaking thing is the huge man-made buildings built throughout the metropolis, majestic and full of futuristic features.
The actors' exaggerated performances can also show their inner emotions very well. The workers frantically turned the knobs and hands, symbolizing the high-intensity work of the workers under the ten-hour working system, implying that the writing metropolis was forged from the flesh and blood of workers.
After seeing the explosion in the factory, the male protagonist knelt on the ground, twisted his body, and covered his heart, representing his heartache when he saw the death of the workers.
The crazy performance of the inventor when he saw the male protagonist's father conveyed his hatred for the male protagonist's father, his yearning for the male protagonist's mother, and his persistent desire to revive the male protagonist's mother.
When the inventor went to catch the heroine, the lights flashed on her, and the camera sometimes looked around at the skulls. The heroine swayed wildly with her hands in front of her chest, and sometimes clenched her fists, showing the heroine's fear at that time.
Expressionism is also used in many episodes. When the male protagonist saw the factory explode and the workers were blown away, the factory turned into a sphinx, and the workers became slaves who were walking into the mouth of the bloodbath. It shows the exploitation of workers by capitalists. The workers are their slaves and use their lives to create profits for them.
No. 11811, after swapping identities with the male protagonist, was flooded with movie tickets in the car, and then the sky was filled with balloons. The balloons reflected beauties of all races and various life scenes of the upper class, symbolizing the high society's feasting and drunkenness. .
When the male protagonist saw the fake female protagonist with his father, the lights began to flash, everything began to spin, and then he seemed to fall into an abyss. The male protagonist couldn't believe the scene in front of him, and his heart was desperate as if he had fallen into an abyss.
The fake heroine twisted wildly on the stage, the obsessed face of the playboy below kept flashing, and finally the picture was covered with pairs of glasses. All the young people in the upper class are intoxicated by the beauty of the heroine and gradually become addicted to desire.
The theme of the film is like the biblical story told by the heroine: the metropolis is like a tower of Babel, the capitalists are the brains of the city, and the workers are the hands that build the city. If the brain and the hands are not in harmony, the Tower of Babel will not be built. So we need a coordinator, and this coordinator is the heart. The male protagonist is the coordinator. There are two problems with this theme: the first is that it is more difficult to expect capitalists to have intentions than to reach the sky, and it is impossible to find such a coordinator in real life. Second, if the coordinator does not appear, the director thinks it can only wait. This has the meaning of hypnotizing the workers, making them willingly accept the exploitation of the capitalists and wait for the appearance of the coordinator.
The fake heroine instigated the workers to destroy the factory, which eventually led to the destruction of the city. Represents the director's view of working-class revolution: their revolution is instigated, blind, and wrong. And the goal of their revolution is capital itself, which leads to the destruction of society. It can be said that it is full of class limitations, because the object of the revolution of the working class has always been the capitalists themselves, not capital.
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